"a prior commitment" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to a previous obligation or commitment that has already been made. Example: I would love to attend the party, but I have a prior commitment to attend a wedding on the same day.
She had a prior commitment and declined.
However, the Israelis have a prior commitment in Crete.
For Lincoln, however, only a prior commitment to the moral law could make a free people.
Edward Hall had a prior commitment and had to be away for eight weeks to direct Henry V at Stratford.
"If you go to a poem with a prior commitment, you'll get neither edification nor pleasure from it.
Concerned Jewish Aunt It is always disappointing when a long-anticipated event is in conflict with a prior commitment.
Insisting on pushing an explanatory factor back a level is often an indication of a strong prior commitment of some sort.
"The First Lady regrets that she will not be able to celebrate with the Kavanaugh family on such a special evening, but she has a longstanding prior commitment she was unable to change at the last minute," Melania's spokeswoman said in a statement.
(The Ford Foundation will administer the fund, as an extension of its prior commitment to criminal-justice reform).
His firm built the first "speculative" office and retail projects in Edinburgh, which means they were built without prior commitment from a tenant, and the first enclosed mall and suburban office development in Scotland".Ground-Breaking" provides copious detail on dozens of Mr Linacre's buildings.
(Strawson 1994, 1) It is this kind of prior commitment to a world view that makes it so tempting to interpret Russell as a materialist.
